The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-03-15
ANOTHER HORROR.
A Terrible Disaster on the
Boston & Providence Road.
BROKE THROUGH THE BRIDGE.
An Appalling List of Killed and
Injured-COmplete DemOli-
ton of he Cars.
ANOTHER HORROR.
BROKE THROUGH THE BRIDGE.
Railroad Accident.

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BosToN, March Alt is reported tina
a heavily loaded passenger train on The
Boston and Providence Railroad me-
with q terrible accident about7 O'CLOCK
this morning, between Roslindale anC
ForestVille. Four cars are said 20 have
gone through a bridge and many per-
sons were killed. Wrecking aims have
left here for the scene OF the accident.
Advices Just received from the scene OF
the wreck state that nineteen bodies
have already been taken from the ruins.
The latest sdVIces from the scene of
the accident on the Boston & Provi-
| dence indicates that thirty-three per-
sons were killed and forty injured.
Among these are many women. Con-
ductor Tilden was among the killed.
| The accident, this morning, occurred
on the Dedham branch of the Boston d
Providence Railroad between Forest
Hill and Rosllndale, at what is known
as BusSsy Park Bridge. The I o'clock
train from Dedham, consisting of
seven cars and baggage car,
under charge of Conductor Tilden,
broke thrU ugh the bridge. The engine
and three cars went over safely, but
five others fell through the bridge to
the road beneath, distance of thirty
feet, The last car, which was the
smoker, turned completely over and
struck, on top of the others, all being
crushed almost cut of shape. The
cause of the accident is said to have
been the breaking of the bridge.
1t is stated that the bridge where the
accident occurred this morning is COM
paratively new one and that the acct
dent was caused by truck on one of
the cars giving way, causing the car to
strike. against an abuttment of the
bridge. The smoking car, after it fell,
caught fire, but the fire department was
promptly on hand and prevented any
spread of the flames. The bodies
of the dead have all been re-
moved and of the wounded some are at
the hospital and some'have been taken
home. Among the killed are COnduc-
tor Tilden, Sergeant Naylor, of the BoS-
ton police, W. E. Snow. Alice Burnett,
of Roslindale. Mabel Adams and Frank
Norris, of Dedham, Harry Gray NOR
tally injured and dying; many OF the
injured were brought to til os-
pital in this city and So #
the killed have not been identil
The train was crowded w
working people, and the most intens
excitement prevails among their friends,
anxious TO learn the names of the
killed and wounded. The police say
twenty-three were killed outright and
nearly as many others will die. A
Webster Clapp died in Forest Hill sta
ton, where he had been taken. The
engineer, when his engine broke from
the tram, kept right on to Forest HILL
and gave the alarm, instead OF stopping
to ascertain the, extent of the ac- |
cident. On that account it was
to get assistance, at once.
Officers of the road are present and are
doing all they can: Many doctors are
there doing everything in their power. |
Superintendent Folsom says. he does
not know how many were killed or in |
iured. The bodies of the killed where |
horribly mangled, some of their heads 1
being entirely severed from their bodies, Y
and many of the bodies are crushed be- |
yond recognition.
The scene OF this mornings accident |
is about mile from Jamaica Plains, |
where the main line of the Boston & |
Providence Railway branches off to the |
left to Readville and Providence, while |
to the right runs the sweeping curve of |
the Dedham branch. This arm is bu 1t |
through the valley and the embankment |
for long distance is high one. South |
street runs diagonally under the track |
of the branch, and it was into this cut |
that the cars ct the train plunged from |
the bridge which crossed it.
The last computation shows twenty |
three killed and fifty injured. A re-
yised list of the dead so far as ascertain |
ed is as follows: Lizzie Walton, II |
years, Dedhain; Myron Tilden,
conductor: Lizzie Vaudeville, Ded- |
ham; M. Taylor, policeman; Mrs.
Ellis, of West Roxbury; Ida Adams, is
years, of West Roslindale; Ellis Bur-
nett. 20 years, Roslindale; Edward
Morris, Dedham; George Metcalf,
apothecary, of Boston; Mrs Cardinal, |
Of Rollinplste; Chas. Snow, of West
Roxbury: Stephen Houghton, aged SO |
years, of Roslfndale; w. Webster Clapp,
of West Roxbury; William E. Snow, of |
West Ro1bury; Frank Nichols, of Ded-
ham; II. Humphrey, of Dedhan1 Miss
Harkins Dedham; Hannah Murphy,
West Roxbury; H. F. JOHNSON,
Boston; Alice Vanderbilt, Dedham;
Harry Gay, Roxbury; = Stone,
West Roxbury: Gates, Roslindale
of Roslndale. William S. L
smith, reported as injured, died at the
city hospital, and Will. E. Durham
died at the hospital, making q dead,
whose names are known. There are at
the morgue the bodies of three men and
two women which as yet remain un-
identified.
The wrecked train was one which
caves Dedham at 7.05 and arrives at
Boston at 40, and is one of the largest
and heaviest on the morning list. This
morning as usual the train was heavily
oaded, and the last three
;ars, the ones that left the
rack, were filled with passengers
Who had taken the train at Dedhan:
and stations between there and Forest
Hill. The accident was due to the
giving away of the bridge under the
weight of the train, owing doubtless to
some hidden fault in construction. An
of the wreck reveals the fact
hat eight cars comprising the train,
IRE iumbled into acomplete wreck, not
one of the coaches escaping almost per-
ect demolition. From the location of
he wrecked cars it would seem that
he first three cars passed over the
1rjdoo r.falv The structure evidently